The Purdzilla Show

The thing that always fascinated me is that you think you emanate a certain color of light. You are convinced that you are a nice guy, or convinced you are a bad guy, you're convinced that you are terribly complicated, whatever it is, the light that people are looking at is not the same light that you think you are emanating. They see something entirely different. Paul Newman (in The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man )

The thing that defines a person is, I think, a set of serious contradictions that you get from splashes of color. Out of that, you have a painting. Out of that painting, you find parts that are worth looking at or not worth looking at. Paul Newman (in The Extraordinary Life of an ordinary Man )

 

  Perry Como, 1956

Photo by Marty McGuire on Unsplash In the dark, clear light, a white, half-withered moon brought little light. The wind was dry and singing over the snow, a quiet wind that blew steadily, evenly from the cold point of the Pole. Over the land the snow lay very deep and dry as sand. The houses snuggled down in the hollows of banked snow, and their windows were dark and shuttered against the cold, and only a little smoke rose from the banked fires. John Steinbeck (from The Moon Is Down )

Photo by Mehdi Sepehri on Unsplash A life with suffering and happiness is rich. A life with success and failure is reasonable. A life with gains and loss is fair. A life with birth and death is natural.

We keep counting time. We have the sensation time is running out, and we bug ourselves with this. Time is nothing but an abstract measure of motion. We are living in an eternal now. Alan Watts